Our meetings

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1st Meeting 1994 Recklinghausen / North Rhine-Westphalia
  • Presentation of the seven represented projects and various planned activities
  • Exchange on specific working conditions
  • Advantages and disadvantages of mobile environmental education programs
2nd meeting 1995 Bad Wurzach / Baden-Württemberg
  • Legal foundations for nature conservation and species protection
  • Levels of encountering nature
  • Forest education
  • Mobile environmental education and multimedia/computers
  • Differences and similarities to stationary environmental education centers
  • Evaluation trials of eco-mobility deployments
Blick in die Zukunft
Bad Wurzach: A Look into the Future
3rd meeting 1996 Schöna / Saxony
  • Psychological aspects of environmental awareness, environmental knowledge and behavior
  • Nature music, sound and listening experience training
  • Planning of trade fair appearances and in case of problem weather
  • Statistical overview of the project deployment organization
4th Meeting 1997 Dornumersiel / Lower Saxony
  • Statistical evaluation of the target group distribution, topics and working conditions of the mobile environmental education projects (16 projects present)
  • Nature experience and multimedia offerings
  • Experiencing the Wadden Sea: Topics such as mudflats, dikes, and land reclamation from an environmental education perspective
  • Establishment as “Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Umweltmobile” (AGUM)
5th meeting 1998 Dresden / Saxony (in combination with the German Nature Conservation Day)
  • Practical demonstration of working with Dresden schools in the Elbe meadows
  • Presentation of the projects present at the Environmental Market 1998
  • Internet directory of the vehicles
  • Update of the statistical overview
Planarien Mobile
6th Meeting 1999 Osnabrück / Lower Saxony
Main topic: Soil in environmental education work
  • The development of the eco-mobility projects since 1988
  • Excursion: Educational opportunities using the example of typical soils of the Osnabrück layered landscape
  • Didactic guidelines in (mobile) environmental education and their practical implementation
  • Internet, logo, professional field of environmental educator
  • Presentation of the projects present to the public
7th Meeting 2000 Freiburg (Breisgau) / Baden-Württemberg
  • Workshop on perceiving and creating multimedia presentations about nature and the environment
  • Sponsorship – Opportunities and Limitations
  • Networking of stationary and mobile nature education
  • Presentation of the projects present to the public
8th meeting 2001, Vilm Island near Rügen / Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
  • Distance learning – very close: Study programs on environmentally relevant topics at the University of Rostock
  • Landscape has history: “A landscape tells a story”; new insights into the inclusion of historical cultural landscape elements in environmental education work and analysis, evaluation and implementation for practical fieldwork.
  • National and international experience reports on mobile nature education
  • Cultural history of the VILM
  • History of the concepts of nature and environmental protection: From natural history to education for sustainability
  • Field trip to the island
  • Discussion topic “BURN-OUT” – a problem (not only) among environmental educators
  • “The Dialogue with Nature”: Perceiving nature through performing arts as a method and medium in (mobile) environmental education
  • Environmental beach games
Gruppenfoto Tagung Villm
9th Meeting 2002 Eisenach / Thuringia
  • Biodiversity and the EU (NATURA 2000, FFH)
  • Local Agenda 21 (not only) in Thuringia
  • Educational and psychological aspects in environmental education
  • Environmental Games
  • Excursion in the Eisenach Forest
  • Presentation of the arriving mobile homes on the Eisenach market square
10th Meeting 2003 Eberswalde / Brandenburg
Main topic: Mobile environmental education in and with the forest
  • Forest education in Brandenburg
  • Dealing with problem situations in group work (“difficult children and adolescents”)
  • Experiencing the forest – conveying a positive attitude towards the forest, e.g. through “forest theatre”
  • Environmental mobile units and special target groups
  • Life in deadwood
  • The wolf – Animal of the Year 2003
  • Environmental education at the (Eberswalde) Zoo
  • The Eberswalde Forest School – Offers and further development (Solar Home)
11th Meeting 2004 Hamburg
Main topic: Mobile environmental education in the big city
  • Urban ecology and urban development using the example of the newly emerging HafenCity and the “Mühlenberger Loch” nature reserve (with guided tours)
  • Occupational safety for environmental mobile operators: Handling hazardous materials and special waste
  • Accident prevention, fire situations and first aid in the forest
  • Neozoa: New guests in Hamburg’s city center – foxes and other wildlife.
  • Presentation of the mobile in downtown Hamburg-Altona
Treffen in Hamburg 2004
Meeting in Hamburg 2004
12th Meeting 2005 Königswinter / North Rhine-Westphalia
  • Visit to the Bundesamt für Naturschutz: Lifestyle types – specific target group analysis in environmental education
  • Visit to the Museum für die Geschichte des Naturschutzes
  • Mobil global: Preparation for the 3rd World Conference on Environmental Education, Turin, Oct 2005
  • Reports on international contacts, including further training for Chinese educators by AGUM members.
  • Bicycle excursion to the Siebengebirge hills
  • The Do’s & Don’ts of Mobile Working
  • Current budget and staffing situation of the participating projects
  • Noise as a work topic for mobile environmental units
  • Speech technique
13th Meeting 2006 Eckernförde / Schleswig-Holstein
Main topic: Mobility on, in and with water
  • Development of offerings in nature experience areas using Maasholm as an example; Geological and soil science division of Schleswig-Holstein – Excursion from the North Sea to the Baltic Sea
  • What can mobile environmental education units contribute to “Education for Sustainable Development”?
  • Rescue operations on and in the water (DLRG exercises in the swimming pool)
  • Marine biology in practice: Tasks and findings of marine sciences from a popular science and environmental education perspective: Visit to Geomar/Kiel
14th Meeting 2007 Tübingen / Baden-Württemberg
Main topic: 20 years of the Tübingen Eco-Mobile
  • Marketing for environmental education – the company Umweltmobil?
  • What does nature conservation have to do with ethics? – Communicating values ​​in education for sustainable development
  • Market of Opportunities – Practical Examples from Mobile Education for Sustainable Development
  • The ABCs of Outdoor Living – Nature Experience Training
  • Large presentation of 11 mobiles on the Tübingen market square
15th Meeting 2008 Gwatt on Lake Thun / Switzerland
Main topic: “Climate” and “30 years of the Pandamobile”
  • State of climate research: Impacts of climate change on the Alpine region/glaciers
  • “Climate change” in educational work – practical applications
  • Urban ecology in Thun
  • Planning for the deployment of mobile environmental units at the UN CBD World Conference, Bonn, May 2008
  • Celebration “30 Years of Pandamobile”
  • Major mobile presentation in Thun
Gruppenfoto Tagung Schweiz
16th Meeting 2009 Pirna-Liebethal / Saxony
Main topic: Standing waters and small bodies of water in practice
  • European Common Implementation Strategy (CIS)
  • Safety, legal aspects/liability risks and pathogens
  • Practical application: Sampling and analysis of standing waters (special equipment)
  • Children and young people with ADHD and ADD in the mobile environmental education unit
  • Teachers’ expectations of mobile environmental education units
  • Vehicle presentation in Pirna
17th Meeting 2010 Eberswalde / Brandenburg
Main topic: Accessibility and forests
  • Accessibility in Tourism and Mobile Environmental Education
  • Educational work in the Schorfheide-Chorin Biosphere Reserve and the Lower Oder Valley National Park (including excursions)
  • New technical equipment for mobile environmental vehicles
18th Meeting 2011 Island of Vilm/Rügen / Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
Main topic: Landscape interpretation

Unfortunately, the lagoon was frozen and the icebreaker was broken, so the conference had to take place on the mainland in Lauterbach.

  • Methods of interpreting nature and landscapes: Historical and current concepts
  • “Land art” as a method in environmental education
  • Museum education concept of the “Ozeaneum”, Stralsund
Gruppenfoto Tagung 2011
19th Meeting 2012 Stuttgart / Baden-Württemberg
Main topic: 25 years of eco-mobiles in Baden-Württemberg, 20 years of the SDW’s forest mobile
  • Quality of learning at extracurricular outdoor learning locations
  • GPS and geocaching in nature education
  • Breathing technique
  • Largest presentation of mobiles to date (including some from Poland) on the Schlossplatz in Stuttgart
20th Meeting 2013 Laufen / Bavaria
Main theme: Experiencing nature
  • Children in search of freedom and wilderness
  • Exploring nature with children with behavioral problems
  • Environmental education development in Bavaria and Austria
  • Nature experience in Berchtesgaden National Park
  • Small mobile presentation
21st Meeting 2014 Radolfzell (Lake Constance) / Baden-Württemberg
Main topic: (New) Media
  • How learning works (interactive presentation) – Susanne Häberle (ZNL Ulm)
  • Application possibilities/risks of modern media, including from the perspective of young people in the FÖJ (Voluntary Ecological Year).
  • Mobile media lab (Hohenlohe district media center) with practical component
  • Methods workshop on the topic of meadows
  • Crayfish in Germany – background information and practical section
  • Mindelsee Nature Trail and Radolfzell Bird Observatory
  • Large mobile presentation
22nd Meeting 2015 Hamburg
Main topic: Inclusion
  • “Experiencing Nature in Hamburg” – Loki Schmidt Foundation Hamburg
  • Inclusion is more than just integration plus. Requirements for future nature and environmental education, Matthias von Saldern
  • Practical exercises for nature and environmental education on the Wilhelmsburg Island Park grounds: Orientation in nature – against the backdrop of increasing disorientation among children and young people
  • All-day schooling, the G8 curriculum, families today… What’s left for nature conservation? Y. Goudarzi
  • Global Africa: OMBOMBO Mobile in Namibia. A report on mobile education for sustainability by M. Johannes and C. Kaapehi
  • Forest in the Forest House. Station-based learning as a method of Education for Sustainable Development. C. Wellmann
  • Theatre as a method of education for sustainable development on the topics of inclusion (B. Kustak), nature conservation (A. Schwarz) and climate protection (C. Wellmann) in mobile environmental education.
23rd Meeting 2016 Niddatal / Hesse
Main topic: Life in the floodplain landscape
  • Wilderness education and early childhood development
  • Hessian Education Initiative for Sustainability/ESD Network Central Hesse
  • Mushrooms in environmental education
  • Wildlife in the floodplain landscape – beavers and other animals – with an excursion in the Wetterau region
  • The Celts
  • Large mobile presentation in Friedberg at Europaplatz with student workshops
24th Meeting 2017 Essen / North Rhine-Westphalia
Main theme: “Searching for and leaving traces” – 20 years of AGUM, 30 years of mobile environmental education in Germany, 25 years of the LUMBRICUS environmental bus, 25 years of the SDW-BW forest mobile
  • International conference as part of European Green Capital 2017 with participants from all over the world
  • Grand celebration marking 25 years of mobile environmental education at the Zeche Carl coal mine
  • Requirements for modern drive technology of the future
  • Scent traces/senses in (mobile) environmental education
  • Resilience in the tough everyday environment of mobile deployment
  • Excursion by hybrid bus and bicycle focusing on aspects of sustainable mobility, structural change, the Common Implementation Strategy (CIS) and dealing with the consequences of climate change (ELA storm)
  • Presentation of 17 mobile units on the grounds of the Zollverein World Heritage Site with workshops for different target groups (daycare, primary school, inclusive classes, secondary I/II, teacher training and adult education) and topics (water, soil, forest, meadow, noise)
25th meeting 2018 Dunasziget / Hungary
Main topic: “SDGs in the international cooperation of environmental mobiles”
  • Local initiatives for Education for Sustainable Development and the situation of national parks
  • Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and ESD in National Parks
  • Changes in land use
  • Excursion to the Danube wetlands
  • Cross-border and international support for the establishment of new and expansion of existing mobile projects: Hungary, Albania, Czech Republic, Laos, …
  • From practice for practice: Environmental mobile teams report
  • Mobile presentation
26th meeting 2019 Freckenhorst (NRW)
Schwerpunktthema: Susatinable Development Goals (SDG´s) als Klammer in der mobilen Umweltbildung
  • BNE als Teil einer Leitbildentwicklung für Umwelt-Mobile
  • Mobil mit Profil – die SDG´s in der täglichen Bildungsarbeit der Umweltmobile
  • Besuch des BNE-Regionalzentrums Lüdinghausen, BNE-Aktionen und Spiele
  • Feuer – Hort und Grundlage der Zivilisation
27. Treffen 2020 Cottbus (Sachsen)
Main topic: Mobile work in cooperation with the university
  • Sustainable careers – successfully sensitized to nature and the environment – ​​and then what? Insights into study options and study orientation.
  • Mobile measurement, collection, analysis, and uploading of environmental data. Workshop on the senseBox
  • Excursion to the research platform “Hühnerwasser” – Initial phase of ecosystem development after a precisely definable “point zero”
  • Lusatia – Workshop for New Landscapes. Guided tour of the IBA Terraces
  • Teaching and learning with AR
  • Research presentation “Cyanide in the soil”
  • Introducing the Citizen Science project “Flow”
  • Environmental education in Cottbus – Educational Center for Nature and Environment
Gruppenfoto 2020 Cottbus
28th meeting 2021 “digital” (due to corona)
Main topic: We remain connected, even during the pandemic
  • Hygiene concepts of the mobile environmental units
  • Exchange on Mobile Environmental Education in Pandemic Times
  • BANU species identification project
29th Meeting 2022 IP Vogelsang (NRW)
Main topic: Species experts wanted
  • BANU species identification project (further developments)
  • Species experts in teacher training (University of Bonn)
  • Sternenpark Eifel – National Park
  • IP Vogelsang – History of the place
  • Wollseifen – Abandoned Place
30th meeting 2023 (digital “interim meeting”)

Due to the postponement of the conference period from spring to autumn as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, only a digital exchange took place in spring 2023.

31st Meeting 2024 Herrenwies (Baden-Württemberg)
Main topic: Living deadwood
  • Black Forest National Park
  • Lesson unit “Living deadwood”
  • Possibilities of Action Bound in mobile environmental education
  • Arachnids
32nd Meeting 2025 Münster (NRW)
Main topic: Addressing climate change challenges
  • Museum am Schölerberg – Exhibition visit
  • Haus Heidhorn Münster – Forest and Climate
  • From mobile devices for mobile devices – new methods addressing climate change challenges
  • Climate Atlas NRW
  • Psychologists4Future on climate feelings and resilience
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